Alexander Paul Wansiedler wansiedler

Start an AWS EC2 Instance from the Ubuntu 16.04 Amazon image. t3a.micro will do. Open ports 22 and 2443. Assign an elastic IP so it can't change.
Download the private key for the EC2 instance whilst creating it
SSH into the server
Update to the latest sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Install PiVPN curl -L https://install.pivpn.io | bash. Make sure to select TCP and not UDP when given the option. Set the port as 1194. The rest can be left as defaults. If the screen does a strange flashy thing try ssh from Cygwin instead.
Install obfsproxy sudo apt-get install obfsproxy
Put the attached systemd file at /lib/systemd/system/obfsproxy.service
Start the service sudo systemctl enable obfsproxy then sudo systemctl start obfsproxy
Add users with pivpn add. Then follow the steps it gives you.
Use scp to download the .ovpn files and put them on relevant devices. You'll need to modify 1443 to 2443 as the port number in these client config files.

Oh my zsh.

Install ZSH.

sudo apt install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh

Install Oh my ZSH.

Installing reportlab the right way

Doing a pip install reportlab on a relatively new/clean linux setup will probably result in something similar to this:

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    PIL SETUP SUMMARY
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    version      Pillow x.y.z
    platform     linux2 2.x.y (default, MM dd YYYY, 01:01:01)

Installing ngrok on OSX

brew cask install ngrok

Using ngrok

The easiest way to use ngrok to tunnel into your localhost is if your local project is running on a specific port (e.g. not using named vhosts). You just run ngrok http [port number].

You can quickly boot up a local webserver using ruby. cd into the project's root directory and run ruby -run -e httpd . -p [port number].

Ultralearning

The following is the notes I took years ago on the book Ultralearning by Scott Young. The bombastic title and promise to learn virtually anything quickly makes it sound as if its the typical marketing-powered fluff-filled nonfiction book stores are overflowing with, but something about this book stuck with me. After finishing it I quickly went back and wrote these thoughts down. While I don't follow his layout of plans regularly, I have used it to guide a lot of my own self education.

I've successfully utilized it when I needed to refresh on mathematics for my Master's degree (a host of skills that atrophied sigificantly for the dozen years between undergrad and the masters). I've also used it to self-study subjects like Robotics and Deep Learning (though I did decide in the end to go for the Master's accreditation).

I share it here with hopes that someone finds it useful.

Principle 1 - Metalearning

Here is a high level overview for what you need to do to get most of an Android environment setup and maintained.

Prerequisites (for Homebrew at a minimum, lots of other tools need these too):

XCode is installed (via the App Store)
XCode command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install will prompt up a dialog)
Java

Install Homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Here is a high level overview for what you need to do to get most of an Android environment setup and maintained.

Prerequisites (for Homebrew at a minimum, lots of other tools need these too):

XCode is installed (via the App Store)
XCode command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install will prompt up a dialog)
Java

Install Homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

	Debugger commands:

	apropos -- List debugger commands related to a word or subject.
	breakpoint -- Commands for operating on breakpoints (see 'help b' for
	shorthand.)
	bugreport -- Commands for creating domain-specific bug reports.
	command -- Commands for managing custom LLDB commands.
	disassemble -- Disassemble specified instructions in the current
	target. Defaults to the current function for the
	current thread and stack frame.

	import java.io.FileDescriptor;
	import java.io.FileOutputStream;
	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.io.OutputStream;
	import java.io.PrintStream;

	public class HelloWorld{
	private static HelloWorld instance;
	public static void main(String[] args){
	instantiateHelloWorldMainClassAndRun();

	# get from ppa https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs

	$ sudo apt-get update
	$ sudo apt-get install
	$ sudo apt-get purge emacs emacs-snapshot-common emacs-snapshot-bin-common emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-el emacs-snapshot-gtk emacs23 emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23-el emacs23-nox emacs23-lucid auctex apel emacs24 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common emacs24-common-non-dfsg emacs-el

	To add this PPA:
	$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
	$ sudo apt-get update